The longest sentence went to Robert Lady, America’s former Milan CIA chief. All the Americans were tried in absentia and are now considered fugitives from justice by the Italian government. The CIA declined comment.

The incident, dubbed the “imam rapito affair” by the Italian press, involves the abduction of Milan’s imam, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian cleric who was in Italy on an asylum passport. The CIA agents kidnapped Nasr off the streets of Milan and shipped him to Egypt.

Lady has insisted he was acting on the orders of his superiors with respect to the “rendition.” Two Italian officials were also convicted today as accomplices to kidnapping, though the Italian government’s declaration of “state secrecy” prevented more serious charges and pointed to official complicity in the incident.

Gilbert, you are 100% correct. Crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity. "Acting on the orders of his superiors" is no excuse. It doesn't matter whether they were committed by Nazis in WWII or Americans in the 21st century. In the name of humanity and individual God-given human rights; let justice be done.

There's more than one way to skin a cat: OK, now we need a bunch of nations to follow suit, and to add on FBI and DOD. Soon the entire US Military and Intelligence apparatus will be Fugitives from Justice, and will have to seek sanctuary within US Borders. All the troops will then be brought home, and the Empire will be over. See, there's more than one way to skin a cat.

hopefully one morning on the way to getting their coffee a bunch of Italian agents will jump out of a van jab a syringe in the necks, and when the come to being naked on a plane headed for italy where they will stand trial wearing nothing but a diaper

ha!!!! not in this country, the most we can hope for is enough lower downs are get the book thrown at them to discourage people from following illegal orders, especially when your not in situation that you will be killed for not following orders.